Mine are brussels sprouts, beets, anchovies and livers
What are foods that a lot of people dislike but you like?
21 hours ago by DwellerVortex to c/asklemmy
Mine are brussels sprouts, beets, anchovies and livers
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same food every day gang! it's cheap, nutritious, delicious, and a breeze to prepare, what's not to like?
If by cold food you mean room temperature food then I definitely agree. Doesn’t bother me in the least. But if you mean fridge cold, most times I’ll want to heat it at least to room temperature first.
Have you ever had cold fried chicken that's still crispy and then drizzled with hot sauce? Or cold pizza? Either of them straight from the fridge?
So. Fucking. Good!
I love tuna but im worried about mercury poisoning :(
I still eat tuna but im weary of eating it for longer than a week at a time.
There are a lot of vegetables people don't like because they are often prepared poorly. Brocolli, brussel sprouts, etc - seasoned and roasted, they're great. Boiled to mush, not so much.
You're right, they're much more palatable these days. But even decades ago, roasting them with a liberal amount of salt, and maybe a bit of lemon juice on top, they were still decent. Boiled to mush with a single-digit number of grains of salt tastes bad regardless of the decade.
My theory is that back when most people smoked regularly, adults couldn't taste anything and were generally not great in the kitchen because of it.
TBF getting high quality and well prepared veggies is hard and it's expensive. the stuff sold in mass supermarkets is mid at best and that's what most people have access to.
I grew up on awful quality veggies that tasted like shit, because my mom boiled and steamed everything and added no seasoning. also she did this with frozen stuff and we never had fresh. a lot of canned shit too that tasted awful.
this is the reason i never enjoyed vegetables until I was in college. they thought I was this shitty picky kid... but they were just awful cooks who prepared awful food.
when i took some pro cooking classes the chef asked me if my parents ever cooked with salt, because he was shocked how little i used...
I still use a lot of frozen veggies--not as good as locally sourced fresh ones, but with decent seasoning and cooking them properly, they're still good. Not sure why people thought boiling everything was the answer for however many decades there...
black licorice jelly beeeeeans 🤤
Vegemite, Malört, Peated Whiskey (might just be everyone around me only but still), black licorice, soy sauce, and natto.
Yes, I can still taste regular things, no, I've never smoked a day in my life. Now leave me and my slimy beans and my delicious toast alone
I think a lot of the Malört hate is hype. People love talking about how disgusting it is, and that's just become the thing to do when anyone mentions it. The first time I tried it I thought, "I can understand why people don't like it, but it's just an herbal spirit like many others." I tried it a second time years later and said, "Ah, okay. This really is disgusting."
Exactly my experience. People love to hate what the Internet tells them to, but in this case, I'm on the Internet's side
I was, well I was started on 5 o'clock (basically paint stripper if you don't know it) and moved up to peated. Was never really anything in-between for me. I guess since it wasn't paint stripper it was easier to acquire the taste, lol
Soy sauce? I do know many people who don’t like black licorice (the best licorice) and have no idea what the rest taste like, but soy sauce? Isn’t that in half the world’s dinner? ( plus secret ingredient for fluffy scrambled eggs?). I’ve never heard of anyone not liking that
Globally it's probably not the most common one but growing up in the South a lot of people I knew would complain about how salty and disgusting it tasted. They were used to very plain food, under seasoned biscuits and gravy, barely seasoned chicken, grits with just shrimp no salt, etc.
Now, my own wife (from the North) also dislikes soy sauce though in her defence we found out she's allergic and that might be why.
I would not have said that I have ever tried a peated whisky - but since Scotch is a whisky, and I distinctly prefer a peated Islay Scotch over a lighter Speyside - I guess that I am with you.
Peated Whisky Friends!
It's a wormwood liqueur from out of Chicago. Bitter and strong and delicious. It's from Chicago, IL. Highly recommend finding some if you can. It goes right along with everything else on the list, it's strong and knows what it is and isn't afraid of itself.
Pleated whiskey tastes like burning tires smell, to me, lol.
Malort is truly revolting
Umm, how do most people feel about sauerkraut? It goes well with mashed potatoes and pork, or on a hotdog.
I recommend trying kimchi hotdogs
Most people I know seem to hate it unfortunately
Well-made sauerkraut is delicious
People dislike saurkraut?
Love it. Goes great with sausage (not sweet Italian sausage; the sweet flavor isn't complementary).
Fucking dope! Ugh, it is a top tier hot dog topping with spicy mustard.
Not a huge fan. I love bratwurst and will usually put onions and a dark/stone ground/spicy mustard on it. But if someone hands be a brat mit kraut, I’m eating it.
Hated Reuben’s as a kid but yeah, that shit smacks.
I like black licorice so long as it's not the salty types.
Dutch style beehives, griotten, and witch sticks. So good.
Can't have it anymore though unfortunately because it interacts with some of my medications (beta blockers). Real licorice is more like a "herbal medicine" than just a treat.
Most pizzas have tomato on?
Scientific taxonomy =/= cultural classification
Kiwi is coming for you.
Not peppers (green/red bell, jalapeño or shishito) or olives? Mushrooms? (Mushroom caps and stems are the fruiting body of a fungus)
I vividly remember my horror when first totally unexpectedly encountering anchovis.
Ordered a pizza during a school trip to Norther Italy.
Read the "anchovis" on the description, but confused it with "artichoke", which I like.
Instantly spit out the fish part, dissected the pizza and confronted the waiter with the fact that there were "dead fish complete with bones" on my pizza.
I guess this is one of the stories the waiter still tells, when asked about the most crazy customers... ;-)
dead fish complete with bones
Well they're harder to keep on the pizza when they're alive!
Keep in mind that I still was under shock and just kept repeating, horrified as I was, the first thing that came to my mind: "Da ist ein toter Fisch auf meiner Pizza!" (Southern Tirol is a German speaking part of Italy), which also became a running gag and stayed with me until the end of class :-)
It's definitely the crunch for me. Wouldn't mind the flavor if it wasn't for that.
I've had people tell me "you don't really like them you just want to be weird"
I don't see crab in the ingredients... So they aren't actually crab flavored, right? They are just seasoned with Chesapeake bay seasoning?
How is this different from those shrimp chips?
A lot of folks are saying brussel sprouts... interestingly:
the flavour has changed..
Apparently it's very dark beers. I can't find any grocery store regularly selling them but I can find a million IPA's. I don't mind an IPA but I like to mix it up and also cooking with dark beers is amazing.
Porter used to make some great stuff (probably still does). Pretty sure they made my favoritiest dark beer, the Russian Imperial Stout. Phenomenal.
Guinness is legit delicious.
Just dont chug 4 of them.
I love anchovies on pizza. I should do an anchovy, onion, and mushroom pizza…
Yes! This is my favey fave! Unfortunately I only get it every once in a while though because my husband SWEARS he can still taste the anchovies even if we only get it half and half.
But, a good compromise is everything else and I order the anchovies on the side so I still throw them on each slice for optimal anchovy to cheese ratio.
Leftovers? Fr though my pizzas are of a size where everyone gets their own. And I make the dough in batches enough to do that. My most recent was mushroom and onion with fresh basil. And the dough is always from scratch
I read the “traditional” way was anchovies, tomatoes, and black olives. I can see that. It’s like “pasta puttanesca” (prostitute pasta). A basic pasta sauce using inexpensive, common, pantry staples (in Italy back in the day): anchovies, tomatoes, capers, olives.
It’s good (and still inexpensive and easy, like your mom )
My username says it
But I guess it sits at a weird crossroad of "it's all over Instagram" and "most people don't seem to like the taste"
Ooh yeah gimme that bitter shit. You can buy industrial quantities from some suppliers if you don't mention that you're a private customer. I had one send me a couple free bags because they were feeling out if I was gonna set up a deal or something.
As a fellow matcha head got any recommendations on what to try next in terms of prepping it? I'm getting kind of bored of just hot, cold, or with dairy
Moxie. It's one of those cough syrup flavored type of sodas. I also like the taste of Jagermeister too.
Inverse... I don't like lobster. Everyone says it's so amazing but it tastes like nothing to me. Flavorless.
Yeah I wanted to like moxie and I’m not sure what I expected, but not cough syrup.
Lobster tastes like melted butter: it’s really good.
Actually in general my response to shellfish is that it’s not good enough for the effort you need to put in.
Note: The same gene that makes cilantro taste for them like soap, lets them smell formic acid produced by ants.
Edit: I looked into this and it is a rumor, nothing else.
Blue Cheese. I spread it on crackers.
Tastes like vomit to me. My bf enjoys it, though.
As an American not many people I've come across like Icelandic licorice like Opal but I love the stuff. If I go back I'm stuffing my suitcase to the fills with it. Costs way too much to get it shipped here.
If that’s that salted stuff, that’s vile. After comments like this here, I tried it from ikea, and it’s vile. I’m the only one who forced my way through an entire piece but my kids spit it out and my ex refused to try it
Brussel sprouts, but roasted in a pan with oil
Asparagus, prepared the same way
Raw radishes
Raw celery, sometimes with peanut butter
Raw broccoli
Lemon slices that come with your water at the restaurant
Grapefruit
Roasted asparagus is the bomb. Streamed broccoli with cheese sauce. Raw broccoli with ranch dip. Raw celery, again with ranch dip/dressing.
I see you dude/ette!
Black olives are tasteless, least the ones I've tried. Green olives are great
All olives have their place.
I've been in Japan over a decade now. I still can't do it in real detectable amount; I will gag. I can sometimes survive very mild 納豆巻き (nattou maki) or something.
Brussels, anchovies, kimchi and mushrooms. Never tried liver. I'll have to put it on my list.
If you don't already know it, you need some brenniven!
Fruits with chocolate, like in Pim's biscuits. I love it and I don't think I've met anyone who does not hate it.
Also I love fruits on pizza (including pineapple) so I guess I'm weird.
Interesting... Never thought of that before. You make them yourself?
Chia seeds. I was very surprised about the revulsion people have towards them.
People don't like chia seeds? They seem pretty flavourless to me.
I've been told it's a texture thing.
I love mayonnaise.
foods that a lot of people dislike
mayonnaise
The entire state of Minnesota would like a word with you.
Brussel sprouts, boiled is fine. I have them every day.
Green olives. I guess some people don't like them.
I use to not like cranberry sauce, I liked it as I got older, but I don't eat it anymore, way too much sugar.
I don't know very well what other people don't like. I'm surprised by most of the things already listed in the comments, apart from canned fish and liver. I don't like seafood, except for salmon and crab, so there's a whole bunch of food other people like that I don't.
stevia as alternative sweetner, not to sweet and not to bland. people hate it, because it has a wierd taste. 85%-100% dark chocolate.
I like stevia, too.
I love stevia
Most Americans I know (as an American) eat a lot of eggplant. This might be an even more local thing
I've disliked it nearly every way I've had it. Not because of the flavor, but anything squeaky on my teeth makes me involuntarily shudder.
If you're ever being coerced into trying it again, my favorite way is Shish Andaz
I get the squeaky teeth thing though
The name sounds like a version of Pepsi that's sold exclusively at strip clubs.
I use to eat black olive by the can and sour cream by the spoonful. Also fresh tomatoes are disliked by some but man. My garden fresh tomatoes are amazing.
Mayonnaise. A lot of people seem to hate it.
I hated (and presumably still do) US commercial mayo, but Japanese mayo is fine for me.
Broccoli
Hell, as a kid I liked it
I'm never sure what is popular but all of these have gotten an eew from someone.
Anchovies
Black Licorice
Limburger Cheese
Okra
Not all mixed together. I like every sort of olive, love goat cheese, that Thai green papaya salad, and the weird green mango pickle.
I thought everyone liked brussel sprouts now, they have been bred to be less bitter and the way people commonly prepare them now is better too.
The London Broil cut of beef. It's looked down on as a searing steak for being cheap and tough. But, I think the value/fat/protien ratios are some of the best in boneless cuts of beef. Know what you're doing and its almost as good a cut as anything, excluding ribeyes. This is especially true if you go to an actual butcher and can ask for inch to inch and a half thick cuts.
I like the taste of orange juice after I brush my teeth
Just unlocked a trauma. Family breakfast on weekends, start with a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice. Then a glass of milk poured into the same un rinsed glass. If we ran out of milk, it was instant powdered milk made in the glass. Gritty, warm, with bits of pulp and slight curdling.
😵💫🤢
I love horseradish sauce.
i think its because its tasteless, or it has a taste that is kinda foul to some people due to genetics? like with cilantro.
Indian food. The Europeans won't understand this, but a lot of Americans straight up refuse to eat it based on the smell.
What's wrong with the smell?
It's heavily spiced. A lot of Americans eat very plain food.
I am somewhat surprised to hear that.
I e.g. had the impression that the US was totally crazy about spicy Mexican food, which is supposed to be much better that the similar named, but bland stuff sold here in Europe.
Tbh, the Midwest gives the US a bad name when it comes to food preferences. The south spices the hell out of foods, the southwest has a ton of Mexican influence, the west coast has both Mexican and Asian influence in their cuisine
I live in the Midwest and there are busy Indian restaurants everywhere. The twin cities and Chicago both have some of the more diverse food scenes per capita in the country.
I’ve always loved mushrooms. Even as a kid cream of mushroom soup was my favorite.
Also like black licorice/ jelly beans
And I really like mustards. My Burger King order in the 70s was “mustard only”. I currently have 8 different mustards in my fridge.
Necco wafers. Tums. Cherry flavored medicine.
Same for me, minus the anchovies (but plus "Kieler Sprotten").
Also, I like the regional tradition of combining sweet with savory dishes, which really raises the eyebrows of people from other regions.
Think e.g. Lentil soup with waffles, Spaghetti Bolognese with sweet canned peaches, Scharles (a regional pie made of potatoes, different kind of meat, some vegetable like leek) with apple compote.
Damn, and now I am hungry!
im a picky eater so Im not sure I have anything. I know some folks don't like peanut butter and banana sandwiches but enough people like that that im not sure if it fits. I think my claim to fame is I like to mix food and will do it all the time so I can get multiple tasty things at once in each bite. I worked at a place where this girl was the antithesis. She did not like two things on the same plate. everything had to be seperate.
Licorice (plain or salted), very dark chocolate, anchovies, and this is more of a cultural thing but chapulines and escamoles are delicious and white people should eat more insects so they aren't so hard to find.
Bagels and lox. Sushi has seemed to steadily grown in popularity here in the states but there's still plenty of aversion to raw (or cured, brined/smoked) fish. Also capers are like angry little olives on steroids. Definitely not for everyone. I haven't had any since the only bagel shop around, an Einstein Bros, closed some years ago.
I loved greens as a kid and still do. Stewed spinach, Brussels, broccoli, etc. Seems like it's usually a visual and/or texture aversion for the folks that don't like stewed greens (spinach, collared, kale). Does kinda look like a chunk of dark, wet grass left behind a lawnmower.
Dutch licorice. I haven't been brave enough to try Swedish Bastards but I have to make a conscious effort not to eat a whole bag of Gustaf's dubbelzout coins. I told the person that introduced me to them that they taste the way a litterbox smells... then they grew on me and I kept eating them.
Fresh hot mustard. A local Chinese restaurant makes theirs fresh and it's damned potent. It honestly reminds me of nail polish remover. I haven't found anything that'll clear my sinuses the way it can.
Haggis and organ meats.
Bell peppers. They contaminate every dish they're in. The entire thing just tastes of pepper. Yeugh
Do you notice that the green ones are MUCH worse than red and yellow peppers?
Also, what are your thoughts on seltzer water?
I can taste bitterness that others don't. I'm always looking for other people with the same "gift".
My partner has the same issue. I don't mind bell peppers or seltzer. Interestingly, she did actually like our neighbors' bell peppers, which I assume lack some note of bitterness. Or they are different if they are garden fresh, but we have never grown our own.
Apart from not understanding the question:
You might want to stay away from Germany.
"Paprika" (which is just dried and grounded bell pepper) is one of the three most basic condiments used almost everywhere: salt, pepper and paprika. ;-)
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Not quite in the spirit of what you've asked, but I think this still applies:
Cold food. I have no problem with it. I get distracted by kids and my wife gets worked up about how I could come back to cold food and not heat it up. Doesn't bother me.
Same food every day. I've spent years eating tuna sandwich and an apple for lunch every day of the working week. "Don't you want variety?" Nope. I also used to bulk cook food. So even my dinner was the same every day. Didn't bother me.
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